Just Me…And The Voices

Part 1 can be found here.

After the severe smackdown my pride had received from Nature Boy’s lack of reciprocation, I nursed my wounds for a short while, then began the task of making him love me. (There were no dead rabbits in stew pots involved, OK? Sheesh, you people watch too many movies.)

I continued the flirtatious emails, and he continued to respond favorably, but he remained cautious. I, on the other hand, took the “throw caution to the wind!” stance. One day, opportunity reared its beautiful head. (I’m imagining a kick-ass white tiger right now.)  Some vendors were taking a few of us out for happy hour that night, and I asked Nature-Boy if he was going. He told me that he was going out with some different vendors. So, I looked up his cell phone number from the emergency contact list, and wrote it down, hoping to be able to use it later.

Later that night, after I’d had some liquid courage, I called Nature Boy, and insisted suggested that his group join us at the bar where we were. He told me, “Maybe, I’ll see what the other guys want to do.” My God, this was like pulling teeth.

But to my surprise, about ten minutes later, the other group arrived, including Nature Boy. I was ecstatic, but remained cool. I had to keep up the pretense that we were nothing but co-workers. Which at that point was true, but that would soon change (nice foreshadowing, eh?).  I chatted with Nature Boy and some of the others for a while, but it was getting late, I was tired, and one of the few females left. So I announced that I was leaving, and Nature Boy said, “I’ll walk you out.”

HOLD THE PHONE! He was going to walk me out? Now we were getting somewhere.

We walked to my car, and chatted nervously for a few minutes. He finally said, “I’d really like to kiss you.” And I coyly responded with, “So why don’t you?” And we both moved in for THE KISS.

*Cue angels singing, fireworks exploding, cymbals crashing, etc.*

Oh. My. God. Best kiss ever! The fact that it lasted for 10 minutes or so proved that neither one of us had any intentions of stopping. I won’t go into any gory details, but suffice it to say I was weak in the knees, and use your imagination for the rest.

Knowing it was late and that we had to work in the morning (how weird was THAT going to be?), we begrudgingly parted ways and went home for the night. But I was so high on adrenaline, not only from the kiss but from the knowledge that this was it. I had him!!

Or so I thought.

Stay tuned for Part 3!

UPDATE: Part 3 The Finale is here.